The public sphere and the Net : structure, space, and communication / Peter Dahlgren -- Promoting political engagement / William A. Gamson -- The Internet and the global public sphere / Colin Sparks -- Reporting and the push for market-oriented journalism : media organizations as businesses / Doug Underwood -- Political discourse and the politics of need : discourses on the good life in cyberspace / Don Slater -- Dividing practices : segmentation and targeting in the emerging public sphere / Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. -- Let us infotain you : politics in the new media environment / Michael X. Delli Carpini and Bruce A. Williams -- The future of the institutional media / Timothy E. Cook -- Reframing public opinion as we have known it / Robert M. Entman and Susan Herbst -- Political waves and democratic discourse : terrorism waves during the Oslo peace process / Gadi Wolfsfeld -- Monica Lewinsky and the mainsprings of American politics / John Zaller -- The big spin : strategic communication and the transformation of pluralist democracy / W. Lance Bennett and Jarol B. Manheim -- The impact of the new media / W. Russell Neuman -- Issue advocacy in a changing discourse environment / Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- Implications of rival visions of electoral campaigns / C. Edwin Baker -- Mediated electoral democracy : campaigns, incentives, and reform / Bruce I. Buchanan -- "Americanization" reconsidered : U.K.-U.S. campaign communication comparisons across time / Jay G. Blumler and Michael Gurevitch -- Citizen discourse and political participation : a survey / Roderick P. Hart -- Adapting political news to the needs of twenty-first century Americans / Doris A. Graber -- National identities and the future of democracy / Wendy M. Rahn and Thomas J. Rudolph -- Communication in the future of democracy : a conclusion / Robert M. Entman and W. Lance Bennett